All Posts Tagged With: "WHS"

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Build A Windows Home Server For $400

Although there’s a big and growing community of Windows Home Server users on the internet, I’ve yet to met one in the flesh.  Given that WHS has been in the wild for around 6 months now, I’m a bit surprised.  Yes, home servers are a ‘new’ concept, but I’d assumed that once users understood the [...]

 26May2008 | Everton | 4 comments | Continued
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Beta Starts

Although there has been a very well publicised data corruption bug with Windows Home Server, I haven’t suffered from it and my WHS experience has been fantastic and I recommend anyone who has more than one PC in the home and significant home networking needs to consider WHS.
Microsoft are planning to fix the data corruption [...]

 22May2008 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Now My Main PC Has Died As Well!

I’m really not having a good time with my PCs at the moment.  Last week my Windows Home Server died, taking with it a lot of my music and photos. Now my main PC has died and won’t boot into Windows.  I don’t know why all my bits and bobs are all [...]

 23Mar2008 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
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Coping With A WHS Hard Disk Failure

I haven’t written a lot of posts this week as I’ve spent most of the week trying to recover files from one of the hard drives in my Windows Home Server that has stopped working.  I have several disks in my WHS machine, and if any of the other drives had failed I wouldn’t have [...]

 22Mar2008 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
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KeepVault Unlimited Backup Solution For Windows Home Server

I’m a big fan of my Windows Home Server. Being able to access all my files located centrally on one box that I can easily access with other PCs in and out of the home, as well as having a good local backup solution has been amazing.
However, the backup system is not foolproof and [...]

 15Feb2008 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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My Movies 2 - Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center

Vista Media Center doesn’t allow you to watch DVDs on your hard drive. There is a way to hack the registry so that a DVD Library is added to Vista Media Center, but only a list of movies is displayed with no thumbnails or data like genres, movie ratings, actor bios etc.
I discovered My [...]

 7Jan2008 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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Windows Home Server Review

Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]

 9Dec2007 | Everton | 21 comments | Continued